Anonymous lists targets for #OpCharlieHebdo attacks

Anonymous has attacked a website with links to Islamic extremism as it pledges to "track down" anyone connected with the terrorist atrocities in Paris last week. The hacker collective has also posted a list of Twitter accounts that it claims belong to "terrorists".

In a post on its #OpCharlieHebdo Twitter account Anonymous claimed that it had taken down the website www.ansar-alhaqq.net. The site had previously been linked to French jihadists. At the time of writing the website redirected to the search engine DuckDuckGo.

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Anonymous has also taken to Pastebin to list more than 70 Twitter accounts that it claims are run by jihadists. In another post entitled "Targets", Anonymous encouraged people to "dump databases and deface" websites rather than carrying out DDOS attacks to take them down. The post listed five websites to attack and said that more targets would be "added soon".

Despite being launched last week OpCharlieHebdo is yet to be endorsed by the main Anonymous Twitter account and it isn't yet clear how widespread the hacker collective's attacks will be.

Last week OpCharlieHebdo said that those connected with the terrorist attacks in Paris would face a "massive reaction". The loosely-organised group said that attacks on freedom of speech were an attack on democracy. "Anonymous has always fought for the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. We will never stop," it said in a video statement.